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<p dir="auto">Looks like I confused windows-1252 with windows-1251 in some places in the message below, but nbsp is 0xa0 in both encodings, and the question remains, at what point are those non-breaking spaces being translated into <code><A0></code>. Do they occur in the email you received, or are they introduced by the way you are saving the text from the email? Examining the contents of the raw <code>.eml</code> file is the first step to figuring that out.</p>
<p dir="auto">Best,</p>
<p dir="auto">Galen</p>
<p dir="auto">On 6 Apr 2019, at 10:51, Galen Menzel wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">They’re using <a href="https://www.postbox-inc.com/">Postbox</a>.</p>
<p dir="auto"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1251">windows-1252</a> is an 8-bit extended ascii encoding, which Postbox supports.</p>
<p dir="auto">The character with the <code>A0</code> character code in the windows-1251 encoding is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space">non-breaking space</a>. So somewhere along the way the non-breaking spaces are being replaced by <code><A0></code>.</p>
<p dir="auto">Does this <code><A0></code> stuff show up when you view the raw message in MailMate (with ⌥⌘U)?</p>
<p dir="auto">What happens if you use <code>less</code> to view the message’s <code>.eml</code> file?</p>
<p dir="auto">Best,</p>
<p dir="auto">Galen</p>
<p dir="auto">On 6 Apr 2019, at 4:27, Randy Bush wrote:</p>
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<div class="plaintext"><blockquote><p dir="auto">i receive an email<br>
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:52.0)<br>
Gecko/20100101 PostboxApp/6.1.13<br>
MIME-Version: 1.0<br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed<br>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit<br>
Content-Language: en-US<br>
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the text has funny space characters that i see if i save the text to<br>
disk and look at it with less<br>
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<A0>0.<A0><A0> flo....: 2.31 2018.11.03<br>
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<A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0> 1.<A0><A0> CLIMATE ACTION<br>
<A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0> * (N)ew (M)odify (D)elete..: N<br>
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<A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0><A0> 2. * NAME OF CLOUD: cumulus<br>
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i presume the sender is thunderbird and they have created the text with<br>
some sort of windows encoding on a mac?<br>
<br>
how can i save the content as vanilla ascii text?<br>
<br>
randy<br>
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